Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.

Gorky Maxim, Letter to Anton Che

Love thy neighbor -- but don't pull down your hedge.

Benjamin Franklin

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

Bill Moyers

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

Oscar Wilde

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

Mehmet Oz

I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

Edward Furlong

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

LaoTzu

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Jane Austen

The calender of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out.

Terry Pratchett

My sun sets to rise again.

Robert Browning

Idleness is the parent of all psychology

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.

Zeno of Citium